they'll be getting that check soon either by direct deposit or a check from the treasury, and they're going -- some will get it as early as this weekend. the moment of jubilation came just one day after the president's first prime time address where he set some bold new goals for vaccine distribution and the path to recovery. >> i'll direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. i need every american to do their part. if we do this together by july the fourth there is a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day. on july fourth with your loved ones is the goal. >> last hour i spoke with dr. francis collins director from the national institutes ever health. if he thinks -- i asked him if he thinks placing a marker like the fourth of july is a good idea when dealing to a virus that may not stick to those schedules? >> even though there is risk involved there because there's a lot about what's going to happen in the next three months that weigh don't completely control, but i think it is a good idea to get in people's minds what we can achieve, but notice the president said that will take american, not just a few people in the government. all of us have to be committed to the public health efforts to make july fourth possible. the biden administration announced the federal website designed to help americans find available vaccines nearby. it comes as vaccination numbers are routinely topping 2 million on day. on friday it was 3 million. biden promised 100 million doses. it putsed by own track to meet his goal in 60 days, well ahead of his 100-day goal and that will probably be nine days from now. a survey by the pew research center shows a majority of american, 70% are in favor of the american rescue plan and that includes 94% of democrats and 41% of republicans, but remember, not a single republican lawmaker in either the house or the senate voted for this covid relief bill cl is why you now see a flailing republican minority trying one of two desperate ploys. they will either try to take credit from benefits of the covid relief bill even though they didn't vote for it and they're hoping you aren't paying attention to that or they're trying to convince you that the benefits you're seeing are an illusion. they're extremely delayed reactions from something or other that donald trump did when he was president. >> senate republicans led the bipartisan cares act that got the country true last year. 2021 is set to be a historic comeback year. not because of the far-left legislation that was passed after the tide had already turned, but because of the resilience of the american people. >> i agree with the resilience of the american people part, but the part where mcconnell is trying to convince us that the gains that we're trying to see on the joe biden $1.9 trillion are not related to the historic package and they're left over package that republicans did support last year. you can call it a stretch or a silly and cynical lie. you are seeing the desperate lies from mitch mcconnell because he knows how big the legislation is and it is a huge deal that will likely pull the economy out of the covid-induced freefall that we've been experiencing and we will lift millions of americans out of poverty on the process and that will be the important part. according to the urban institute, it will drive down overall poverty across the nation by more than one-third and will cut child poverty by over one-half. this is due in large part to four of the key pillars of the legislation that directly affect american families. the extension of unemployment benefits, $1400 stimulus payments, child nutrition programs and the child tax credit. joining me now is sheilacohaltkar and author of "black edge" the story of the most wanted man on wall street, and she's currently working on a piece focusing on child poverty. my producer rich was saying that sometimes these things get buried in a bill. when you look at obama care you thought it was about everyone getting insured and medicaid was the bigger part of it. in this bill you're thinking about the $1400 check and that's the big part of it and the more important part of it is the fact that we have remarkable child poverty in this country and this bill will do something to removal most half of all children living in poverty from that situation. >> one of the aspects of the bill that people are most excited about is this expanded child tax credit and it works differently from child tax credits we've seen in the past. it is fully refundable which is a sort of confusing term that means that anyone, any parent below the income threshold of $70,000 a year can receive this benefit in the form of a cash payment every month beginning in july. you don't have to be employed to get the benefit. you don't have to file a tax return to get the benefit. you don't have to earn enough money to qualify to get taxes to get the benefit which was the case with previous child tax credits so economists and policy analysts are really excited about this because this has the potential to put $300 in the pocket of parents across the country and help smooth over a lot of uncertainty and volatility in people's monthly earnings and parents will no longer be held host ang for the parents to be able to find work. >> and low-income parents of which were, again, when you talk about $300. that is very meaningful. in most cases it goes to food. food or shelter. we know that children in this country continue to suffer from low nutrition and we have a growing number of impoverished and food insecure children in this country. >> no one is referring it that way because they don't want to scare conservatives, but we have seen from studies that have been done by ubi that people when need the money do not squander it and don't spend it on alcohol or go shopping. they actually use it for critical expenses and they help, again, smooth over this volatility. there are so many people working shift jobs where they don't know exactly how many hours they're going to get from week to week or day to day. they might be gig workers and they might be driving uber or delivering food for restaurants and they make it hard to predict whether you've had enough money every month to cover your bills and that leads to inordinate stress and anxiety and that prevents you from doing other things such as finding more stable, higher paying work and this has enormous potential to smooth that over and yes, it is likely to be spent on critical expenses such as groceries, gasoline. >> in the last year we haven't been able to explore interesting ideas because of the news, but perhaps now we will have a chance to talk about that because it is worth a discussion. sheelah is tauthor of "black edge," dirty money and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. let's bring in congresswoman barbara lee and she's the chair of the house majority leader's task force on poverty and opportunity. thank you for being here and congratulations on the bill and the things that you did, and i want to continue the conversation that i had with sheelah because you had a singular focus on this bill and it was not short-term relief and it was poverty alleviation and they are two things and they are both important, but a little bit different. >> yes, and thank you very much for having me, ari. poverty relief, first of all, we need to eliminate poverty in this country. there is no reason why we see so many people needing food. they're hungry and so we did extend the 15% increase in s.n.a.p. benefits and also with the child tax credit. this is extremely important because as the prior one on your show just mentioned, this will actually begin to lift children out of poverty, but also we had to, in this bill, put in money for direct cash assistance for enhanced unemployment benefits because people's benefits in terms of unemployment was going to run out on march the 14th. so we had to do that. we continue and will continue to fight to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. people right now at $7.25. they're working for poverty wages. yet they're still working and they need the benefits and they need the child tax credit. they need public housing and they need assistance just to survive and they're working so we must increase the minimum wage. >> let me talk about that because at $7.25 an hour, the annual wage is $15 an hour and you can't keep an individual person alive on that. it's $31,000, and there was an attempt to put it into this bill and it didn't work. what happens next on the minimum wage discussion? >> ari, i don't know if you remember, but we started in 2014, 2015 as a progressive caucus going around country supporting legislation. we called it the fight for 15 with our labor union brothers and sisters and so we've been working on legislation for years to increase the minimum wage to $15 which, of course, is a floor. we have to move to a living wage and so we're going to once again, keep moving with the legislation. we're going to get it through the house and then we'll work and i've talked to senator sanders and others and we'll figure out ways in the senate to get this passed. people should not have to work and live below the poverty line. so where there is a will there is a way and we're going right back to the drawing board as we speak to try to figure out how we're going to get this $15 minimum wage increased legislation passed. >> congresswoman, a couple of weeks ago i was in birmingham, alabama, talking to black residents there, and a number of them said we need a fairly aggressive campaign to understand the safety of this thing and there are conversations that go on here and there about the vaccine. one of the things you did was you helped to get $1 billion into the bill for vaccine confidence abilities through the cdc. what does that do? where does that money go? >> sure. thank you. we worked to get billions of dollars in for strategies addressed to black and brown communities and medically underserved communities and those communities that are disproportionately impacted by the daily virus and it's about access primarily and so what we have to do is make sure that people of color have access to the vaccine, and also the research has proven that once family members have access and get the vaccine or community members, then the likelihood of those trusted messengers delivering those messages to others works. so we have to have vaccine -- excuse me, confidence building, but we also have to make sure that there's access. so many people, i know in my communities especially senior citizens are not able to go online to set up appointments and so we have to have access so that the -- so the people who are working to deliver the vaccines can come to their homes to provide the shots, but also we have to have and we put into the bill, billions of dollars for workforce trainings so the faith-based organizations can recruit, train and hire individuals to deliver these public health messages so that we can make sure that the access and the confidence building is there through trusted messages that are culturally for those communities. >> thank you for being with us. representative barbara lee is a democratic congresswoman from california closely involved with a number of the measures in this bill. thanks for being with us. one year ago today breonna taylor was murdered in her own kentucky home. to this day breonna and her family have not seen justice and her mother spoke about her daughter's death in an emotional interview just this morning. >> i get up and i start -- there are days i don't want to get up, but it's all of the support, you know -- it's all the -- these people are for you so how do you 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in her own home during a botched police raid a year ago. louisville kentucky officers burst through her door with what is called a no-knock warrant. her boyfriend said he thought the police were intruders and the officers responded firing blindly. a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a medical worker was shot multiple times. one year later none of the officers have been charged and the only indictment was for a bullet that went through a neighbor's wall. a piece of sheetrock deserved more justice than a young black woman innocent of any crime. the world knows breonna taylor's name thanks to activists who made her a priority and there were dozens who have not received justice either. we will continue this discussion with whitney cunningham after a quick break. whitney cunningham quick break. extra cost. and more of the entertainment you love like apple music. and the beautiful iphone 12 on us when you buy one. only from verizon. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ darrell's family uses gain flings now so their 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killed by police since 2015. a fifth of those women were black. police violence against women is often overlooked and it can't be understated and even breonna taylor, a name known around the world was overlooked in the mainstream media until the death of george floyd sparked a movement. i want to bring in whitney cunningham with the 21st century policing task force and the host of the undistracted podcast. she is also an msnbc contributor. thank you so much for being with us, brittany. we are a year out from the killing of breonna taylor. what, in your opinion, has changed as a result of being able to say her name and talk about her because as we mentioned, justice hasn't been served and accountability has not been met. >> honestly, ali, not enough has changed. i mean, breonna taylor has come in a very long line of demonstrated callousness and hatred toward black women especially those of us with brown and darker hues. america was willing to accept breonna's labor on the front lines of a pandemic that would have killed her first, but not willing to acknowledge her humanity and her personhood while she was in her own home that was proven again when her killers were not charged with her murder, but rather with bullets in the drywall of her white neighbors. it was proven again just yesterday when an alabama courthouse upheld the conviction of a young woman whose name we do not say enough shakisha clemens who was assaulted by police in a waffle house in her hometown and is now being charged with her own assault. we've elected a black and south asian woman to be vice president of this country and still black women are not safe in the nation that we built for free. so the descendants of this country's true fore mothers and the women who saved democracy time and again and the women like breonna who continue to save this country from itself cannot rest in our own homes, and until we think of it like this, there will be another breonna taylor, and there will be another tamika palmer being forced to mourn her daughter. so not enough has changed, ali. >> you always talk about the fact -- it's the system we have to talk about. we have to think about bad apples and bad police in isolation. our friend kimberly crenshaw talks about intersectionality and i think it is such an interesting concept that people need to understand better. she defines it as social identities as race, class and gender overlapping or intersecting to create systems of oppression or discrimination. so if you're two of these things. if you're a woman or a person of color, your likelihood of being discriminated against in some systemic fashion is simply higher than if you're just one of those things. >> the likelihood is both higher and the ways that those oppressive systems intersect and interact is unique. samoya bailey coined the term to discuss in ways when systems of oppression for women, and those things become more complicated and yes, more deadly. so as you shared